The present paper, “Shedding the Layers of False Self in the Poems of Kamala Das” examines and analyses the poetic world of the poetess concerned. It depicts the poetic concerns from a female perspective with the purpose of identifying the poetess's strategy of response to the forces of oppression that exists in a gendered society. It attempts to analyse why Kamala Das may have chosen the confessional voice as her mode of poetic expression. In her poems we can find the psychic disintegration which results, when self-rejects established norms and tries to find her true self by shedding off the layers of the false self.
Kamala Das, Confessional Poetry, Gendered Society, Poetic Expression
